At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.